War crimes probe agency reconstitutedStar Online Report
The government on Tuesday co-opted two into the probe agency formed last year to investigate crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The government, however, excluded a member of the committee Khasrur Haque, a home ministry circular said.
The new members are: M Sanaul Haque, former inspector general of police, and Md Abdul Hannan Khan, former additional deputy inspector general of police.
Inclusion of the two raises the number of probe agency members to 20.
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They claim it never happened: one of the worst nightmares of human history. They claim monsters never existed: those who feasted on their own brother?s blood. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Shah Abdul Hannan and their comrades in Oxford or the Bangladesh Election Commission have their agendas to propagate revisionist rubbish: ?No genocide,? ?No war,?

Dhaka, Sep 23 (bdnews24.com) BNP has ended a meeting without a disclosure on the decision about joining the current parliament.
Media will be let known of the developments on the issue at a press conference at 11am from the partys Naya Paltan office on Friday, assistant office secretary Asadul Karim Shaheen told bdnews24.com.
The two-hour meeting of the standing committee chaired by party chairperson Khaleda Zia resumed at 8:40pm on Thursday at her political office at Gulshan after it was adjourned on Tuesday.
Secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, R A Goni, Mahbubur Rahman, M Shamsul Islam, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Tariqul Islam, M K Anwar, Jamiruddin Sircar, Sarwari Rahman, A S M Hannan Shah, Rafiqul Islam Mia, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury attended the meeting.
More than one member of the partys highest policy-making body confirmed that the meeting discussed on the probable candidate for the Chandpur-1 by-election and present political situation.
Earlier in the day, Delwar told bdnews24.com that the party chief will take the decision on the Jatiya Sangsad after the meeting.
The sixth session, scheduled to run through Oct 5, began on Sep 20 without the largest party in opposition despite speaker Abdul Hamids Sep 17 promise of fair play in the House BNP has remained out of the parliament since June 2, when they made a 25-minute appearance, just before finance minister A M A Muhith proposed the national budget.
The opposition had also been absent from the second and third sessions. However, they were present at the fourth session for a few days.
According to the parliament secretariat, up until the fifth session, the opposition had been out of parliament for 114 working days out of 158. BNP chief Khaleda Zia was present only five days.
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